Calling Windows HTML Help

Hello
can any one tell me how to call Windows HTML Help (.chm)?
It is possible to call .hlp file using -
v_help:=Winhelp.Winhelp('C:\HELP_SAMPLE.HLP',
'HELP_CONTENTS','ORA_FFI');
But same package fails to invoke HTML Help (.chm file) , is there any other pachage available to call HTML Help ?
thanks for any replay
Prakash K.B.

Hi Prakash,
you must install the MS HtmlHelp (hh*.* - files) on the clients and then you can call the CHM-Files from Forms-client:
host('C:\WINNT\system32\hh.exe C:\help.chm');
It works fine.
Regards
Friedhold Matz

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we used to call a help file (oracle_dba_help.hlp) from an oracle form by using the following code .
Declare
Htype PLS_INTEGER;
Begin
Htype := WIN_API.HELP_CONTEXT;
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End;
but when we used the html help(oracle_dba_help.chm) instead of help compiler(oracle_dba_help.hlp) it didn't accept
please give us a way to call html help from a form.

eeddings wrote:
Thanks for the idea, but I can't switch the project to WebHelp. This .chm project consists of a master project with 18 slave projects and a slew of remote jumps. I'd have to recreate all of the remote jumps if I switch to WebHelp.
Hopefully Adobe can fix this issue.
Well, first off, even though it would be WebHelp, it would be inside a CHM container. So for all intents and purposes it would be a CHM file. But having said that, I'm not sure there is a way to merge these hybrid types of CHM files.
If your statement about Adobe fixing the issue is meaning that they can either remove the Print icon from the CHM Viewer, I wouldn't hold my breath because as I said, that's in Microsoft's lap and they haven't updated the CHM viewer in a long while. Doubtful they ever will.
The only hope would then be for Adobe to update the code used for the Mini TOC. The only way that will happen is if enough folks submit this as a bug via the following link:
http://www.adobe.com/go/wish
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No Windows HTML Help shown under Win7?!

Hello there,
I work with RoboHelp 8 and Win7. I´ve tried to generate html help, the CHM is shown but there´s no window popping up and showing the result. How can that be? Is there a serious compatibility problem with windows7 and robo8?
thx so far

Hi there
You were compiling a CHM file, no?
Sorry, but my guess is that there is little RoboHelp or Adobe could do to influence that behavior, because what it does is to hand things off to the Microsoft HTML Help Compiler.
As an aside, it's been known for a while that long path names may cause issues. Best practice is to create a folder near the root. I frequently recommend one named Projects. As in C:\Projects. Then for each project you create, it becomes a sub folder inside that.
In addition to what I listed above, when you name things (Projects, Files, Folders) you should avoid any special characters. Stick to the basics. a-z, A-Z and 0-9.
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Re: HTML Help

Hi,
You can find a little sample on http://perso.club-internet.fr/dnguyen using
the Internet Explorer ActiveX in a component. Then the idea is to use the
Url widget property to open the right URL inside your own Help window.
Hope this helps,
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If so would be interrested in discussing how.
Thank you in advance.
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You can always try "task.Part.OperatingSystem.RunCommand" with a command
like "start help.htm". For this to work, you only need to make sure you have
set up windows to start the correct browser when you doubleclick a file with
extension "htm" or "html".
Of course this is not platform independent and requires setting up some
stuff outside the control of your application, which means additional
administrative overhead. But hey, that's a small tradeoff for such a simple
solution.
Pascal Rottier
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Anybody out there ever used HTML help files instead of standard HLP help
files ?
If so how did you call the Windows HTML help engine instead of Winhelp ?
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Troubleshooting HTML Help (CHMs)

Bear with us while we add to this starter list. Items will be added as we think of them and not necessarily in order of importance.
Please feel free to email RoboWizard or Peter Grainge via their web sites with suggestions.
I see the Browse Sequence Bar but my users don't!
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I see the Glossary Tab with data but my users don't!
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I see the Navigation Panel, but no information appears on the right when I click pages.
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Searching seems to be broken. It fails in my .CHM but works wonderfully in others!
The following link describes what to check. Click here
I selected a skin to use but it doesn't appear in my .CHM.
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Rob Chandler's Helpware site. As well as selling his oh so useful FAR program, Rob hosts a whole lot of pages and links.
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Shadow Mountain Tech (information for programmers on how to link to HTML Help files).
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Ulrich Kulle's site (more tutorials, programming guidelines, code samples).
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Post bug reports for IE to http://connect.microsoft.com/ie
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or
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HTML resource files may refer to online links or use a protocol handler that has no x64 handler installed on your machine..... Try turning off EPM...
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Methinks Colum needs more coffee, because the options he cited have nothing to do with other windows. They have to do with whether the displayed topic synchronizes with the TOC and whether the TOC entry is highlighted.
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